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Nine of
the hijackers who commandeered jetliners on Sept. 11 were selected for
special security screenings that morning, including two who were singled
out because of irregularities in their identification documents, U.S.
officials said this week.

Six were
chosen for extra scrutiny by a computerized screening system, prompting
a sweep of their checked baggage for explosives or unauthorized weapons,
authorities said. The ninth was listed on ticket documents as traveling
with one of the hijackers with questionable identification.

Law enforcement
and aviation officials declined to provide further details about the
security screenings, including which of the hijackers were chosen and
what flights they were on.

Authorities also said
they could not say if any of the nine were interrogated in any way before
being allowed to board their flights, or if screeners noticed the box-cutting
knives used in the attacks. Such knives were allowed on airplanes before
Sept. 11.

But the disclosure
that some members of the suicide crews had triggered security measures
differs sharply from previous portrayals of the hijackers as meticulous
planners who craftily avoided all detection.

It also raises further
questions about the adequacy of aviation security measures before the
attacks, which have come under increasing scrutiny from some lawmakers
and relatives of Sept. 11 victims.

"We are looking
into all these accusations of breaches, as well as specific incidents
that led up to Sept. 11," said Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.), chairman
of the House aviation subcommittee. "These are the kinds of questions
we are trying to get answered."

One group, Families of
September 11, has called for a congressional investigation of possible
security lapses that day, including a disputed report that one of the
terrorists fired a gun on one of the jetliners. Officials from the Federal
Aviation Administration and the FBI say the early report of a gun was
a mistake.

"We have a very
low confidence level in the Department of Transportation, given what's
been going on," said the group's treasurer, Stephen Push, whose
wife, Lisa J. Raines, was killed on American Airlines Flight 77. "We
want an outside party to investigate this."

The group's concerns
stem from an internal FAA memorandum written on Sept. 11 that refers
to a shooting on American Airlines Flight 11, which departed from Boston
and was one of two jetliners that crashed into the World Trade Center.

The "Executive Summary,"
citing a report to the FAA by an American Airlines corporate security
officer, says a flight attendant on board Flight 11 "informed that
a passenger located in seat 10B shot and killed a passenger in seat
9B at 9:20 a.m.," according to copies obtained by The Washington
Post and other news organizations.

The document went on
to say that "one bullet was reported to have been fired" by
hijacker Satam M.A. Al Suqami, and that the victim was passenger Daniel
C. Lewin.

FAA and FBI officials,
responding to questions about the memo in recent weeks, have repeatedly
said the gun reference was a mistake that was corrected in later versions
of the same document. American Airlines spokesman John Hotard also said
no such report was made to the FAA by an American official.

Instead, officials said,
the evidence indicates that Lewin, an Internet company executive and
former Israeli special forces officer, was probably stabbed to death
along with the two pilots on Flight 11.

"There was a miscommunication,"
said FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown. "Whether they said weapon instead
of knife, or misinterpreted something, we don't know. . . . By the end
of the day, they knew that there had not been a gun on the aircraft."

Authorities point out
that many other details in the memo have since been proved wrong. Flight
11, for example, crashed into the World Trade Center at 8:45 a.m., not
9:25 a.m., as stated in the memo.

Officials said cell phone
calls made from Flight 11, including a recorded call made by a flight
attendant, made no mentions of a gun, and FBI investigators have discovered
no other reports of guns tied to any of the 19 hijackers.

But Push and other relatives
of victims said Congress or another third party should be called in
to put the questions to rest.

"At the very least,
there has not been a thorough investigation of this memo, because no
one seems to have solid information on how this got in the file,"
Push said. "Even if it was an honest mistake, it casts great doubt
on the competence of the people responsible."

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